Integration to add battery notes to a device or entity, with automatic discovery via a growing battery library for devices.
Track the battery type, when the battery was replaced, when a battery is low based on device or global thresholds and also when a battery hasn't been reported for a while.
A battery+ sensor provides useful attributes for easy use in dashboards, the standard battery can optionally be hidden.
Battery low, replaced and not reported are all via events and actions, you have the option of creating your own automations for these or using the predefined ones in community.
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Important
Once you have installed battery notes using either HACS or manually as per the instructions below you must add the following entry to your configuration.yaml, then restart Home Assistant. This will enable discovery of your devices.
battery_notes:
If you need to add a device that is not automatically discovered from the library go to Settings -> Integrations click "+" and search for "Battery Notes"
Or
Search for Battery Notes in HACS and install it under the "Integrations" category.
More Details
- You should take the zip file from the latest published release.
- To install, place the contents of
custom_componentsinto the<config directory>/custom_componentsfolder of your Home Assistant installation. - Add the following entry to your
configuration.yaml
battery_notes:
- Restart Home Assistant
- In the HA UI go to Settings -> Integrations click "+" and search for "Battery Notes"
To get full use of the integration, read the documentation. It contains community quick starts as well as details on all the actions, events and entities.
To add a device definition to the battery library so that it will be automatically configured fill out the above form or see the docs for adding via pull request.
To add a new language translation to Battery Notes see here
If you want to contribute to this please read the Contribution guidelines.
A lot of the inspiration for this integration came from the excellent PowerCalc by bramstroker, without adapting code from PowerCalc I'd never have worked out how to add additional sensors to a device.
Huge thanks to @bmos for creating the issue form & automations for adding new devices.
Thanks to everyone who has submitted devices to the library.